Category: News

By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia Victoria Shaw, a Black girl approximately 15 years old, went missing Monday, Feb. 11, in West Hartford, Connecticut. Teandah Slater, Black and also only 15 years old, was reported missing on Thursday, Feb. 7, from Noble Square in Chicago. Areall Murchinson, a 16-year old...

By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – NAACP – was founded 110 years ago after a deadly race riot rocked the city of Springfield, Illinois. “Because of the riots in Springfield, that brought about serious conversations and meetings about starting an...

Senator Kamala Harris and Former GA Minority Leader Stacey Abrams to Address Gathering Organized for and by Black women to celebrate their collective power, the 2019 Power Rising Summit will reconvene in New Orleans from Feb. 22-24. Last year’s summit brought together Black women across ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, political...

By Jeffrey L. Boney, NNPA Political Analyst According to the World Prison Brief, which is a unique database that provides free access to information about prison systems throughout the world, there are over 2 million people in prison and jails throughout the United States, which is approximately 0.66 percent of...

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia Frank Robinson, a trailblazing figure who was Major League Baseball’s first African American manager and one of its greatest players during a career that spanned 21 seasons, died Thursday after a prolonged illness, according to pro baseball’s premiere website, MLB.com. Robinson was 83. The...

After thoroughly disappointing music fans with its announcement that Jenny from the Block (otherwise known as Jennifer Lopez) would be paying tribute to Motown during the 2019 Grammy Awards, the Grammy’s has since announced a more fitting line-up for a special concert honoring Motown that will be filmed two days...

New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans has issued a precautionary boil water advisory for the Lower 9th Ward and portions of St. Claude, Bywater, Florida and Desire areas. Households and businesses east of Almonaster Boulevard to the Industrial Canal and those in the Lower 9th Ward are...

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor Though much of the 2020 Election attention this week went to former Starbucks Coffee executive Howard Schultz, the end of the week held a surprise entry: Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey. It was widely expected that Sen. Booker would run, the former...

By Brianna Alexis Smith, NNPA Newswire The classic 90s film “Boomerang” is the latest movie to get its own reboot, courtesy of BET Network and Paramount Pictures. Halle Berry, who starred in the original film, along with “The Chi” creator Lena Waithe, executive produced the 10-episode, half-hour romantic comedy series...